Adam Liptak

The junior member of the court’s six-justice conservative supermajority often questioned its approach and wrote important dissents joined by liberal justices.

Three justices dissented in the case, which could affect more than two dozen youths sentenced to die in prison.

The court, which issued two major decisions on guns in the term that ended Monday, does not seem ready to return to the subject.

The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are at least 18, was challenged on...

El tribunal determinó que el expresidente tiene presunta inmunidad en sus conductas oficiales, y que toca a los tribunales de primera instancia distinguirlas de las...

The practical effect of the ruling raises the possibility of further delay of the case against the former president on charges of plotting to subvert...

The ruling could amplify the impact of a separate decision overturning the Chevron doctrine, which had required courts to defer to executive agencies’ interpretations of...

Experts in legal ethics have said that the activities of the justices’ wives raised serious questions about their impartiality.

The decision concerned the scope of a 2002 law enacted in the wake of the collapse of Enron to address accounting fraud and the destruction...

The foundational 1984 decision required courts to defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes, underpinning regulations on health care, safety and the environment.

The court’s strategy of avoidance and delay cannot last and may have been shaped by a desire to avoid controversy in an election year.

El caso, uno de varios que se centran en cómo se aplica la Primera Enmienda a las plataformas tecnológicas, fue desestimado porque los demandantes carecían...